Krita development is in a crucial phase, we are adding fun, useful and
amazing stuff at a stunning rate. But there are things that no Krita
developer can do, because we lack the proper hardware. Krita's
renaissance started with a simple Wacom Graphire tablet, and it led to some
great new possibilities. But to implement support for modern tablet features like tilt and stylus rotation we need to buy more advanced tablets and art pens, and to make that possible, we need your help!

The tablet that started it all

It all started with this simple tablet, but now, to make Krita support modern painting features like stylus tilt, rotation and airbrush rate we need a set of more advanced tablets. And those are costly!

Ideally we would have at least two Intuos tablets, the size
does not matter much for development, with two 6D art markers (for rotation)
and two airbrushes (for rate). We need two tablets because that way two
developers can hack and test each others work. That way we will not have the
"but it worked for me" situations right after a release that we all hate so much!

And we do not want to wait too long: to get these features out with
KOffice 2.0, and not delay
the release, work has to start soon. In fact, Emanuale Tamponi, our Google Summer of Code student working on natural painting has almost finished his preliminary research and is panting to start coding! Thus we ask you, our users, if you value Krita and want us to develop innovative, first-grade painting and drawing capabilities, please help us out!

We have asked the KDE e.V. to aid us with the financial-service part, and you
can donate on the KDE
Donation page. If you donate through the button below your donations will be automatically tagged for Krita. If you donate through a bank order or US cheque, please mention it is for Krita.

And do not worry, if there is more money than we need for tablets, it will be spent for Krita, for instance by getting the Krita developers to Warsaw for the 2008 Libre Graphics Meeting.

Just out of curiosity, how much does this tablet cost? I didn't even know things like these existed until I saw a Wacom at the Apple Store a couple years ago or so, and I've been interested in them ever since.

Yes and while non working tablets are rarely the fault of Krita, but a problem of configuration in Xorg or in a distributions, they also need help to test that part. And helping them is helping Krita indirectly ;)

I buyed one for my sister who used windows. On that time it didnt work on linux. After OpenSUSE 10.2 i tryed it again and it got reconized and worked as normal mouse. But pressing dont work as should (512 levels).

And it is good tablet, draws straight line with ruler and works great (on windows side ;-)).

And it is very cheap for A4+ size, only 75 euros so many art students could afford it.

"Natural painting" is still one of the things I'd like to see on the OpenSource segment. I hope someday it will be a good alternative to CorelPainter. And if it's this promising as krita or the whole koffice package, I don't have a doubt about this ;-). This is definitely worth a donation.

I regularly have contact with a couple of artists who use Krita. Most of them do so because the tablet handling in the 1.x releases fits their way of working best. And, well, a user base is something that has to grow. Especially for graphics applications users aren't eager to switch at the drop of a pin.

I don't have the funds now to donate but really want too. Before I discovered Krita I had to rely on painter for my painting.IMO-GIMP = Photoshop (style) and Krita = Corel Painter (style) and I prefer Painter's style over Photoshop's anyday. Oh and for the person wondering who uses Krita, I do. As well as Inkscape, Karbon, Blender,and a plethora of other gfx apps. To the developers PLEASE ADD A CUSTOMIZABLE WAY (HOTKEY) TO RESIZE YOUR BRUSH SIZE INTERACTIVELY (i.e.like painter (so I can finally ditch windows ;-) )